bonjour

Example Sentences

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She greeted me with warm eyes and a soft bonjour, her long gray hair pulled back behind her head.

From The Verge • Feb. 13, 2015

But in France, bonjour means much more than that.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2014

He compared the men replying to his messages to "starving piranhas, no bonjour, no pleasantries, it was direct and crude".

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2012

Say bonjour to Frédéric Flamand, the new director of the Cannes International Dance Festival, appointed after its director of 18 years, Yorgos Loukos, stepped down in 2009.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011

The word bo was short for bonjour, started by some chaps learning French in secondary school and wanting to show off.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba